U.S.

History 1301: Unit 3: Jacksonian Democrats The Civil War/Reconstruction

Identifications require that you can answer the following questions thoroughly:
Who, What, When, Where, How, Why (Cause), and Result (Effect)? You must cover all political,
economic, social and cultural aspects of the item in order to show its true significance. The definition/explanation of
a term & individuals should be in the context of the period of history or document to which they relate.
You should associate items and place them in a picture of events, which you can also place in the proper time
sequence. You are also responsible for knowing/recognizing overall concepts, trends, policies, etc. for this time frame.
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Jacksonian Democrats:
Nullifiers Comp. Tariff 1833 Indian Removal Act Election of 1844 John Tyler
Spoils System Tariff of 1832 Bank War Trail of Tears Andrew Jackson James K. Polk
Nullification Crisis Force Act of 1833 Five Civilized Tribes Democrats v. Whigs Martin van Buren Eaton Affair
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I. The Jacksonian Era: 1824-1845 4. Bank War of 1832
A. Jacksonian Democrats 5. Whig Party
B. Andrew Jackson 6. Indian Removal
1. Personal Data a. Terminology
2. Administration b. Southern Tribes (Civilized)
3. Nullification Crisis c. Indian Removal Act of 1830
a. nullifiers d. Supreme Court Rulings
b. Tariff of Abominations & C. Martin Van Buren
Tariff of 1832 D. William Henry Harrison
c. Force Act of 1833 E. John Tyler
d. Compromise Tariff of 1833 F. James K. Polk-
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Be able to answer any/all of the following:
1. How did political participation change in the 1820s for the voter? What was the Bank War about? Who were the players in this
and what happened to the U.S. Bank?
2. Explain, in detail, the Nullification Crisis. What caused this to start? Who influenced all of this and how? What was the
solution? Timeframe?
3. What did the Whig Party support when they were established? Who were the high-profile leaders in the party? When did all of
this happen and what was the main driving force behind establishing the party?
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Transportation/Industrial Revolution:
Gibbons v Ogden & Charles River Bridge v Warren Bridge
Clermont Railroads artisan putting-out-system cotton gin Robert Fulton
Steamboats eminent domain journeyman Rhode Island System German v. Irish Eli Whitney
Erie Canal disposable income apprentice Waltham/Boardinghouse System Samuel Slater
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II. Transportation Revolution G. Cities & Immigration
A. Agricultural Society III. Industrial Revolution
B. Steamboats A. Early Stages of Industry
C. Erie Canal/1825 1. Household Manufacturing
D. Railroads 2. Artisan Manufacturing
E. Sectionalism B. Factory System
F. Government Involvement 1.Textile Industry
1. State Governments 2. Inventions
2. Private Sector 3. American System of Manufacturing
3. Federal Government 4. Stationary Steam System
4. Legislative 5. Ecological Impact
5. Supreme Court: Judicial Support 6. Social Inequality
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Be able to answer any/all of the following:
4. What was the significant result of the construction of the Erie Canal? What roll did governments play in the construction of
transportation systems? Why were transportation developments so critical for industrialization and development of cities?
What were the major ethnic groups entering the U.S. in the 1830s and 1840s?
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Antebellum Reforms:
Cult of Domesticity/Womans Sphere Shakers Joseph Smith Sarah Hale Elizabeth Cady Stanton William Lloyd Garrison
2nd Great Awakening Temperance Movement The North Star transcendentalism Frederick Douglass
Benevolent Societies Abolitionism gag rule Benevolent Empire Horace Mann
Companionate Marriage The Liberator Mormons Doctrine of Immediatism Dorothea Dix
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IV. Antebellum Reform F. Utopian Societies
A. Benevolent Empire G. Womens Involvement in Reform
B. Temperance Movement 1. Changes in Society
C. Abolitionist Movement 2. Sarah Hale/Ladies Magazine
1. William Lloyd Garrison H. Womens Rights Movement
2. Frederick Douglass 1. Abolitionist Societies
3. Gag Rule 2. Leaders
D. School Reform 3. Seneca Falls Convention
1. Public Education I. Backlash?
2. Massachusetts/1837 1. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
E. Prison, Workhouse, Asylum Reform 2. Shakers (communalistic)
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Be able to answer any/all of the following:
5. What were the major Antebellum Reform Movements and who were the most significant leaders or founders of those
movements? What was the benevolent empire?
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Westward Movement:
Zebulon Pike Oregon Trail Mormons The Alamo Mexican War
Stephen Long Independence Brigham Young Sam Houston Zachary Taylor
John C. Fremont Ft. Laramie Texas Independence James K. Polk Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Rocky Mtn. Fur Trade The Whitmans Stephen F. Austin Santa Anna California Gold Rush
Jedediah Smith Winfield Scott John Slidell Manifest Destiny
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V. The Movement West 4. The Action
A. Western Exploration I. Manifest Destiny
B. The Rocky Mountain Fur Trade 1. New Mexico Territory
C. Plains Indians & California
D. The Oregon Trail 2. James K. Polk
E. Missionaries 3. How to start a war?
F. The Mormons 4. The Mexican War
G. Mexican Borderlands a. The Proposed Deal
H. Texas b. Gen. Zachary Taylor
1. Stephen F. Austin c. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
2. The Agreement 5. Gold!!
3. Gen. Santa Anna
Be able to answer any/all of the following:
6. What was Mexicos approach to American settlers in Texas? What were the steps that Santa Anna took after becoming
President of Mexico to make himself excessively powerful? Why did the U.S. go to war with Mexico? What were the
provisions of and results of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
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Antebellum Slavery:
Lower South Slave Life & Culture Resistance Harriet Tubman White Society
Upper South Slave Codes Free Blacks/Black Codes Classes
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VI. Slavery in the Old South D. Slave Life & Culture
A. King Cotton/Southern Zones E. White Southern Society
1. Lower South 1. Planter Class
2. Upper South 2. Non Slave Owners
a. Border South 3. Poor Whites
b. Middle Zone 4. Myth of the Southern Belle
B. Lower South F. Free Blacks
1. Short-staple cotton 1. Southern/Northern
2. Plantations 2. Black Codes
C. Upper South G. The Price of Blood
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Be able to answer any/all of the following:
7. What were slave codes and where were they applied? Slavery was used widely in the Lower South mainly for what purpose?
How did the growth of the cotton kingdom effect the South? What percentage of white families in the South did not own
slaves? What facts would apply to the overall health, well-being and life expectancy of slaves? What was significant
about the Upper Souths economy by the mid-eighteenth century? Uncle Toms Cabin served as a powerful force
opposing slavery, why?
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Events (Causes) Civil War
North/South Developmental Differences Bleeding Kansas Dred Scott Case Election of 1860
Missouri Compromise Compromise of 1850 Caning Incident Lincoln-Douglas Debates Stephen A. Douglas
Nullification Crisis Uncle Toms Cabin Sack of Lawrence John Browns Raid Secession
Wilmot Proviso Kansas-Nebraska Act Pottawatomie Creek Harriet Beecher Stowe Popular Sovereignty
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VII. Causes/Events Leading to the Civil War 2. Citizenship
A. North/South Differences (Sectionalism) 3. Missouri Compromise
B. The Missouri Compromise I. Lincoln-Douglas Debates
C. The Nullification Crisis 1. Illinois
D. Wilmot Proviso 2. Abraham Lincoln &
E. The Compromise of 1850 The Republicans
1. California 3. Stephen Douglas
2. Popular Sovereignty J. John Browns Raid
3. District of Columbia 1. Harpers Ferry, Va.
4. Fugitive Slave Law 2. Slave Revolt
F. Uncle Toms Cabin K. The Election of 1860
G. Kansas-Nebraska Act 1. The Candidates
1. Railroad 2. Republican Platform
2. Bleeding Kansas L. Secession
a. Sack of Lawrence 1. South Carolina
b. John Brown/Pottawatomie Creek 2. Lower South Convention
c. The Caning Incident 3. Crittenden Compromise
H. The Dred Scott Case 4. Upper South
1. Chief Justice Taney M. Fort Sumter, S.C.
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Be able to answer any/all of the following:
8. Review the Missouri Compromise. You need to cover the application for statehood, the amendment that
caused the crisis to erupt, the provisions of the Compromise and the individuals involved in the process. Timeframe?
9. Review the Nullification Crisis. What caused this to start? Who influenced all of this and how? What was the
solution? Timeframe? (see above on unit handout)
10. What were the provisions of the Compromise of 1850? Who were the players at the national level who pushed for adoption?
11. The participants in the raid on Harpers Ferry were hoping to accomplish what?
12. What was the courts decision in Dred Scott v Sanford?
13. What were the provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska Act? Who supported it? What were the drastic results of this act?
14. Know the order of the major events/causes leading to the Civil War. Know the states of the Upper South, Lower South and
Border South. Know who seceded from the Union and who did not. Who led the way?
15. What was included in the Republican Party Platform? What was so offensive to southerners?
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The Civil War
North & South Advantages/Disadvantages Grants Strategy, Obstacles Know the Commanders & associated Battles
Fort Sumter 54th Massachusetts Election of 1864 Stonewall Jackson
1st Bull Run/Manassas Fort Wagner Vicksburg Appomattox Ulysses S. Grant
Antietam/Sharpsburg Gettysburg Atlanta Campaign Lincolns Assassination George Meade
Emancipation Proclamation Shermans March Robert E. Lee John Wilkes Booth
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VIII. The Civil War 2. Antietam
A. North & South: 3. Emancipation Proclamation
Advantages/Disadvantages 4. Blacks in the Army
B. Border States a. 54th Massachusetts
C. The War b. Fort Wagner
1. First Bull Run/Manassas 5. Chancellorsville
 Stonewall Jackson 11. Atlanta Campaign
6. Gettysburg 12. Election of 1864
7. Vicksburg 13. Shenandoah Valley
8. Northern/Southern Economies 14. Shermans March
9. Grants Strategy 15. Appomattox Court House
10. Petersburg D. Lincoln Assassination
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Be able to answer any/all of the following:
16. Where did the Civil War begin? When and how? What was the trigger that set this off? What was the first major battle of the
Civil War? Where and when did it happen?
17. What changes came about when Grant took charge of the Union Army? Results? What were his major challenges?
18. What is considered to be the end of the Civil War (who, where, when)?
19. Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln? Where? When? Was this a conspiracy? What happened to the assassin?
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Reconstruction:
Reconstruction Amendments (13th, 14th, 15th)
Andrew Johnson scalawags Redeemers Crop Lien Laws Rutherford B. Hayes
Civil Rights Act/1866 carpetbaggers Civil Rights Act/1875 Ulysses Grant
Tenure of Office Act Ku Klux Klan Act Compromise/1877 Boss Tweed
Impeachment Govt. Corruption sharecropping Samuel J. Tilden
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IX. Reconstruction, 1865-1877 4. 15th Amendment
A. Lincolns Plan/Wade Davis Bill 5. Republican Governments in the South
B. Presidential Reconstruction, 1865-1867 D. Counter Reconstruction, 1870-1874
1. Pres. Andrew Johnson 1. Changing Attitudes & Priorities
2. Johnsons Reconstruction Plan 2. Ku Klux Klan
3. 1st Governments 3. Congressional Action
4. Radical Reconstructionists 4. Corruption in Government
a. 13th Amendment E. Redemption, 1874-1877
b. Civil Rights Act of 1866 1. Southern Democrats
c. 14th Amendment 2. Civil Rights Act of 1875
C. Congressional Reconstruction, 1867-1870 3. Election of 1876 &
1. Military Reconstruction Acts 4. The Compromise of 1877
2. Tenure of Office Act F. Plight of the Freedmen
3. Ulysses Grant
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Be able to answer any/all of the following:
20. What did each of the Reconstruction Amendments do? What were the provisions of Andrew Johnsons Reconstruction Plan?
What did Congress have to do to get approval for the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and what did it do? What was the Tenure
of Office Act and what was it intended to do? Who or what were Redeemers? What happened as a result of the election
of 1876? Who or what were Scalawags &Carpetbaggers? What was involved in sharecropping? What were crop-lien
laws?
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Identifications: Review what you associate with the following individuals?
William Lloyd Garrison Stephen F. Austin John C. Calhoun Charles Sumner George Meade Robert Anderson
William Henry Harrison Stephen Long Andrew Jackson Joseph Smith John Tyler Sarah Hale
William T. Sherman John C. Fremont Stephen Douglas Ulysses Grant Santa Anna Dorothea Dix
P.G.T. Beauregard Daniel Webster John Brown Robert E. Lee Sam Houston Abraham Lincoln
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Henry Clay Jefferson Davis George McClellan Horace Mann Peggy Eaton
Frederick Douglass Robert Fulton James K. Polk John Wilkes Booth Samuel Slater Joseph E. Johnson

Review the following terminology:

Manifest Destiny popular sovereignty eminent domain cult of domesticity gag rule Trail of Tears
Rhode Island System Waltham System Shakers transcendentalism spoils system carpetbaggers
Sharecropping scalawags temperance nullification benevolent empire
Northern States
Border South States
Southern:
Upper South
Lower South
Be able to distinguish between all of the above +
Know all of the states shown!!